June 13, 2006

I. Readings
Psalms 7, 12, 36
Ecclesiastes 8:14-9:10
Galatians 4:21-31
Matthew 15:29-39

II. Selections
Psalm 36:8
They feast on the abundance of your house,
and you give them drink from the river of your delights.

Ecclesiastes 8:14
There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people who are treated according to the conduct of the wicked, and there are wicked people who are treated according to the conduct of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

Galatians 4:31
So then, friends, we are children, not of the slave but of the free woman.

Matthew 15:37
And all of [ the crowd of 4000 men, besides women and children] ate and were filled; and they took up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.

III. Meditation: Too much of a good thing?
You are generous, way too generous, God-
and to the wrong people.
That the children of the free woman
should feast upon the abundance of your house,
drink from the river of your delight,
is one thing;
but the children of the slave?

Shall the righteous be treated
according to the conduct of the wicked,
and the wicked treated
according to the conduct of the righteous?
Or are you going to feed the whole crowd?
That would be just like you ...
and just like us to complain.